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Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

#82 Slam T1D

Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

Scott Benner

Type1, Diabetes, Insulin, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Celiac, Cgm, T1d, Nutrition, Parenting, Ardensday, Omnipod, Type1diabetes, Dexcom, Juvenilediabetes

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jeff is the father of two T1D kids and the founder of the coolest wiffle ball tournament in the world. If you want to play wiffle ball with some of the MLBs biggest stars while helping to strike out diabetes - hit that link below.

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Here at SLAMT1D we are all about community. As an organization, our purpose is to bring people together using active games and sports. When people come together, they create a powerful team committed to beating Type 1 diabetes.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This the 82nd episode of the Juice Box Podcast is sponsored as always by Insulate,

0:05.8

makers of the Ammy Pod, which as we know by now, is the world's only tubeless insulin pump.

0:12.2

So you might remember way back in episode, let me look, episode 47, I spoke

0:18.9

with Sam Fauld and said, people are messaging me. Kathy, if you're listening to this,

0:22.8

you're bugging me while I'm doing the podcast.

0:24.7

Hold on a second.

0:26.2

Sam Fold is a Major League Baseball player

0:28.2

as type 1 diabetes, and I spoke to Sam about all kinds of things

0:31.8

about how he handles his type one.

0:33.6

And at some point he talked about this, these charity work that he does with this big

0:38.0

wiffleball tournament called, Kathy, called Slam Type One diabetes. and he told me I should really talk to Jeff Kolok

0:45.9

who is the person who runs the whole thing and Sam's involved actually a lot of

0:49.6

major leakers are involved I'm actually hoping to go down on December 10th of Florida to do a

0:54.9

podcast live from there, but my shoulder surgery may get in the way of that. Nevertheless,

1:00.3

let's listen to Jeff, who is a father of two kids who have type one, one a natural child and one adopted,

1:06.5

and a guy who started this great charity and this wonderful event that's really blossoming into way more than maybe many would have anticipated,

1:17.6

but I don't think Jeff. Jeff, I think Jeff had a big picture and it's my whole time.

1:22.0

So this is really, Kathy?

1:23.6

So this is, all right, here it comes.

1:27.1

Here comes Jeff.

1:30.4

Scott, I'm Jeff Kolok, currently the founder and CEO of Slam T1D.

1:37.0

We co-founded with my wife and we have three children, our oldest daughter, Naomi, is 22.

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